Theoretical paper

Description

Academic paper summarising and evaluating the project and reviewing matters arising from it in the context of the theory and practice associated with professional standards and competence frameworks internationally.

Contents

Different conceptions of ‘competence’ including ‘internal’ versus ‘external’ models

Established and emerging models of competence in partner and other European countries

Different conceptions of competence in the different partner countries and in EU-level instruments, relative merits, how they interact

Issues of applying the concept of competence to higher-level occupations

Project

Products

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